Women’s Hospital Work in Renaissance Italy: Reassessing Knowledge and Practice

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Sharon Strocchia Solmsen Fellow (2010-2011) History, Emory University   This presentation examines women’s nursing activities in the hospitals of sixteenth-century Italy in light of changing disease environments and new charitable initiatives associated with …

Voice and Presence: Performance Aspects of Turkic Oral Epics

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Karl Reichl Honorary Fellow (2010-2011) Turkic Studies, University of Bonn   Based on my field-work in the Turkic-speaking areas of Central Asia, I will explore and illustrate some of the elements that characterize …

The Global Renaissance: Some New Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Memorial Union
@ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

2011 Conference:   This conference will explore the “Global Renaissance” from a variety of perspectives and will address the following topics: the exchange of commodities and goods; imperial encounters with distant cultures; European intellectual encounters …

Proust’s Calculus of Personality

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Richard Goodkin Senior Fellow (2009-2014) French and Italian, UW-Madison   Calculus, invented in the seventeenth century by Leibniz and Newton and perfected over the next two hundred years, is not only the foundation …

A Community-Wide Discussion of Ethics and Race

Mosse Humanities Building, Mills Hall
@ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

2011 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University   Professor Gates’ talk will deepen the community-wide discussion of ethics and race launched this fall …

Notes Toward a Theory of Resistance

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Len Kaplan Honorary Fellow (2008-2011) Law, UW-Madison   Weimar’s weak liberal state folded into Fascism. In the US since the 1970’s critics have warned about “fascism with a friendly face” and more recently …

Beasts and Monsters

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar Mario Ortiz-Robles Resident Fellow (2010-2011) English, UW-Madison   This seminar will focus on the animality of the monsters that appear in late-Victorian gothic fiction. It will explore how evolutionary dynamics inform the narrative …